Halloween is just around the corner, which means costume parties with friends and decorating the house with spooky and adorable decor. It also means making sure that everything you eat is Halloween- or fall-themed. If you need some inspiration on Halloween-themed treats for your spooky parties, then get ready to explore this absolutely terrifying list of creepy food items. Not only are they thrilling and delicious, but they’re affordable creations that you can easily make in your college dorm.
6. Ghost Dipped Cookies
Simple ghost cookies are so easy that you only need a microwave. Grab some of your favorite cookies in an oval shape, like Nutter Butters or Pepperidge Farm Milano’s, and a bag of white and milk chocolate chips. Melt your chocolate chips in the microwave, in separate bowls, with a little bit of butter or coconut oil to prevent burning and to give it a smooth texture. Dip almost all of your cookie in the melted white chocolate, and then either with a piping bag or with a toothpick, dot on two eyes and a mouth with the milk chocolate. You can also use frosting if you don’t want to mess with a microwave. Either way, it’ll turn into a sweet and delicious treat.
5. Easy Broomsticks
Another treat that takes almost no work, but can be spruced up to be a cool treat for your dorm party, is these easy broomsticks. All you need for the basic broomstick design are pretzel sticks and peanut butter cups. These are so easy. Simply grab a pretzel stick and push it through the bottom of the peanut butter cup, making sure that it doesn’t completely go through the chocolate. But you can level it up if you want to be fancy by adding chocolate icing to where the two connect, adding sprinkles, or even dipping the entire cup into chocolate and adding sprinkles all around it.
4. Pretzel Spider Webs
Another one of the best Halloween-themed treats for your party goes to these spider webs, made only with pretzel sticks, chocolate chips, and sprinkles. All you need is to lay out parchment while you’re melting your chocolate chips with butter or coconut oil. On the parchment, place 8 pretzel sticks in a group as seen above. From there, drizzle your chocolate on the pretzels, starting from the center and moving outwards in a circle to make the spider pattern. Before the chocolate hardens, sprinkle festive sprinkles.
3. Monster Marshmallows
Decorating marshmallows into adorable and spooky Halloween-themed creatures is not only really easy, but it also gives you the power to be creative. And for one of the best Halloween-themed treats to bring to the party, all you need are a bag of marshmallows, candy melts, candy sticks, sprinkles, candy eyes, and icing. From here, your imagination can run wild. Decorate marshmallows into pumpkins, ghouls, ghosts, zombies, or just cover them in frosting and dip them in your favorite sprinkles. It’ll surely be a pop of color at every party.
2. RIP Dirt Cake
Turn the classic fan-favorite Dirt Cake into a memorable spooky experience by adding just a few tiny details. Combine vanilla pudding mix with milk and whisk. Set aside to let thicken once combined. In another bowl, combine cream cheese with softened butter and mix until smooth, then add powdered sugar. Once smooth, add that mixture in with your pudding mix, then layer over top crushed Oreos in a dish. Layer with another set of crushed Oreos, top with gummy worms, edible bone sprinkles like from Mystic, and decorate cookies with edible writing that looks like tombstones.
1. Puppy Chow
Not sure what to bring, but want to bring something? A fan-favorite, no matter what season it is, is puppy chow. And you can make a delicious Halloween version of it with a few extra ingredients. This recipe, commonly referred to as Monster Munch, blends a sweet cereal mix made with chocolate, a nut butter, and powdered sugar. The add-ins to make this one of the best Halloween-themed treats are mini pretzels, Halloween-themed chocolate candies like M&Ms, candy corn, candy corn pumpkins, candy eyeballs,
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